Congratulations to Sales Rep Frank Crossman and Designer Kevin Shea for winning the 2010 2nd Quarter “Associate of the Quarter” award.  Frank and Kevin worked tirelessly to bring back  a major piece of busness that was previously with a competitor.  They refused to give up and eventually were successful in securing the business here in New England as well as at a Florida location.  GREAT JOB, GUYS!!

Volk Packaging is having another 6 WORD POEM CONTEST.  The topic this time is SUMMER 2010.  Send us your best 6 WORD POEM.  The winner receives a Volk Packaging t-shirt with their poem on the back.  Entries due August 31.  Have fun!

Once again, August 2010 showed a tremendous growth over 2009 in our Sales from the Maine Box Factory.  Our sales of stock boxes and packaging supplies year to date have more than doubled and our sales to various customers have more than tripled!!  Wow, we are so excited to have already exceeded all expectations for 2010.  We look forward to even more success in 2011.  If you have not checked out our stock box and packaging supplies yet please do so.  Your sales rep can give you all the details as to how it works or feel free to call the office. 

What could be more thrilling than following all the fun and excitement of your favorite box company on Twitter??!!  Now you can get Tweeted by Volk Packaging by logging on to Twitter and following VolkPackaging. 

Today we are all celebrating as the company and Mike Allen celebrate a 30 year relationship.   Mike has worked at just about every job in the plant and at 52 years old has spent 58% of his life working with the people of Volk Packaging.  We are honored and blessed to be able to have such a dedicated and long standing associate.  Next month we will be having our annual 5 Year Club party where we will honor Mike for his accomplishment as well as 3 others, Sue Ruel, Barbie Poitras and Paul Voccia, celebrating 25 years!  That is over 100 years of service from only 4 people. 

It has been a full 7 months since we launched our new Maine Box Factory and we couldn’t be more pleased with the results.  Our sales as compared to 2009 have more than doubled over the January to July time frame and we have added literally hundreds of customers to our stock box and packaging supply program.  By being able to offer a huge selection of stock boxes, tape, stretch wrap, polybags, mailers and over 10,000 different packaging supplies we have been able to service our customers with many more of their packaging needs.  That is a win-win!